Biography

Ar Joseph was born in Lucera in 1898 to a family of humble origins and hours of freedom starts very early studies of the pictorial technique, demonstrating clear artistic talent. Simple and taciturn, from mild character, instilled in his early paintings, delicate tones and poetic, a personality of provincial artist still searching for himself. He moved to Rome from 1925 to 1928, with more maturity expresses his artistic talent with the study of drawing and perspective at the studio of Antonio Mancini. Came the first successes and the first exhibitions: his first solo exhibition in Rome is also visited by King Vittorio Emanuele III. But the big city is disconcerting, so that prefers to go back in the stillness of Lucera, where he taught drawing and, for over twenty years, with discreet eye and melancholy, is the inspiration for his paintings from the aspects of the solitary life and daily . At the stage of maturity Ar acquires greater self-awareness and peace of mind with which, when facing the figures depicting without the veil of sadness and shyness than once, where the element of light is no longer neglected but begins to prevail, overlooking the international limelight, earning more than gratifying critical successes. The painter died in Naples in 1956, but is buried in the cemetery of Lucera, in an artistic monumental structure. Source: Wikipedia.